Facebook Fellowship Program for All Nationalities, 2023-2024

Facebook has start receiving application for the 2023-2024 fellowship program. The Facebook Fellowship Program is designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to Computer Science and Engineering at an accredited university anywhere in the world.

The program is fully funded and designed for students in any year of their PhD study, and supports talented students from traditionally under-represented minority groups. Applications are evaluated based on the strength of the student’s academic achievement and research potential. Winners of the Fellowship are entitled to receive two years of tuition and fees paid, a stipend of $37,000 each year, and up to $5,000 in conference travel support.

As part of the program, current Fellows are invited to Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park for the annual Fellowship Summit. At the Summit, Fellows can engage with other winners, share their current research, speak with Meta researchers and teams, and learn more about research at Meta.

Program Details

• Host Institution(s): An accredited university in any country.
• Research Areas: Please find the full list below.
• Number of awards: Not specified.
• Duration: 2 years.
• Target group: Open to all.

Facebook Fellowship Program Benefits

Winners of the Facebook Fellowship Program are entitled to receive the following fees:

1. Tuition and fees paid for the academic year (up to two years/four semesters);
2. A $42,000 annual stipend to cover living and conference travel costs;
3. Paid visit to Facebook headquarters for the annual Fellowship Summit;
4. Various opportunities to engage with Facebook researchers.

Available Fellowships

This year’s fellowship is available for research on the following topic:

1. AI System HW SW Co-Design
2. Applied Statistics
3. AR/VR Computer Graphics
4. AR/VR Future Technologies
5. AR/VR Human Computer Interaction
6. AR/VR Human Understanding
7. AR/VR Photonics and Optics
8. AR/VR Wireless
9. Audio Presence
10. Augmented Reality Audio
11. Database Systems
12. Computational Social Science
13. Distributed Systems
14. Economics and Computation
15. Human Computer Interaction – social media, People, & Society
16. Networking
17. Privacy and Data Practices
18. Programming Languages
19. Security and Privacy
20. Technology Policy Research.

Facebook Fellowship Program Eligibility

To be eligible for a Facebook Fellowship Program, applicants must satisfy the following criteria:

• Applicants must be full-time PhD students who are enrolled in an accredited university (in any country) by the start of the Fellowship (i.e., Fall 2023)
• Students must be engaged in research related to computer science and engineering in areas relevant to Meta, as specified in the Available Fellowships section
• Students must remain enrolled full-time for the duration of the Fellowship to receive program benefits

You would not be eligible if you are:

• Graduating before the fall following each application cycle
• Planning to work at another competitor company while participating in the Fellowship
• A contingent worker at Meta. the program cannot pay the CW wage and the stipend concurrently.
• A Meta AI Resident
• Planning on doing a part-time internship with a competitor during the academic year (fall/spring). You can do an internship at another company in the summer before Fellowship or in the summer between academic years during Fellowship. This includes internship extensions into the fall.
• The program will not be offering awards to candidates whose research is outside the specified research areas described in the Available Fellowships section. Please review each Available Fellowship description carefully to ensure you are aligned with the correct research area.

Similar opportunities

1. Turkish Government Research Scholarship;
2. Government of the Czech Republic Scholarships;
3. University of Toronto International Students Scholarship;

Application instructions

Interested applicants should submit their applications for this Corporate Scholarship may prepare to apply by creating a SurveyMonkey Apply account (click on the Apply button to access the form). During the application process, applicants will be asked to provide references’ contact information. Once the application is submitted, references will receive an email to upload their letters in SurveyMonkey Apply by October 6, 2022.

Required Documents

1. CV or resume : There is no page limit to the resume or CV. In this case, it may be worthwhile to have a longer CV to complement your achievements or any publications you would like to share.
2. Research statement : Statements of research should be 500 words or less and should clearly identify your area of focus, its importance to the field, and its applicability to Meta as it pertains to one of the Available Fellowships. Note that references or citations count toward the 500-word limit. To optimize the word count for research statements, references and citations should be added to CVs, which do not have a word or page limit.
3. Two letters of recommendation : One of the letters of recommendation needs to come from a Ph.D. advisor or a research advisor. The other may come from another professor or an industry contact.

If you have any questions, please send your requests to [email protected].

The Application deadline is September 20, 2022. To know more about the Facebook Fellowship Program, please visit the official page. To be the first to see latest opportunities, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.